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I become my art, my art becomes me….My heart is hard to handle, my art is too.
Hannah Wilke (born Arlene Hannah Butter; March 7, 1940 — January 28, 1993) was an American painter, sculptor, photographer, video artist and performance artist. Wilke’s work is known for exploring issues of feminism, sexuality and femininity. Wikipedia 
Hannah Wilke with Ponder-r-rosa 4, 1975
“If women have failed to make”universal” art because we’re trapped within the “personal”, why not universalise the “personal” and make it the subject of our art?”
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“Beware of fascist feminism.”
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“To diffuse self-prejudice, women must take control of and have pride in the sensuality of their own bodies and create a sensuality in their own terms, without referring to the concepts degenerated by culture.”
Hannah Wilke, Sweet Sixteen, 1977, HWCALA, © Scharlatt © VAGA, New York, 2016 © ADAGP Paris
“She established herself in the 1960s through her depictions of vulvas, terra cotta sculptures that she would later make out of other materials such as kneaded erasers, gum, ceramic, and porcelain, some very large, in large installations.” Aware Women Artists
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